Master plate for card slotting punches



Dec. 17, 1940. R. CONNOR 2,225,297

MASTER PLATE FOR CARD SLO-TTING PUNQHES Filed March 2. 1940 A.Cusiomer IF 1- I258 High 31., --9

Akron Ohio Acct. No. 453

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o STATES MASTER PLATE Foa CARD- SLOTTING runcnns Roger Connor, Athens,Ohio, assignor to The of Ohio McBee Company, Athens, Ohio, a corporationApplication March 2, 1940, Serial No. 321,824

2 Claims.

My invention relates to slotting devices such as are illustrated anddescribed in 'United States. Letters Patent issued to Lucien L, McCart,No. 2, 144,412, for a Card slotter.

The object of that device, asexplained in the specification, is toprovide. a machine to slot or notch a predetermined pattern of notchesin a card such as is described in United States Letters Patent No.1,544,172, issued to A. Perkins, in order that a stack of mixed cardscan be readily sorted into a numerical or other predetermined sequence.7

As explained in the McCart patent, a master card is formed which can beinserted in the slotting or punching device in such a manner that thepoints on the master plate or card will render inoperative certainpredetermined punching dies but which will permit those dies in theposition oppositethe notches or slots to remain active. A Perkins cardmay be then inserted underneath the master 'card and by actuation ofthe-device, the pattern of slots appearing on the master card will bereproduced on the Perkins card. Reference may be had to the McCartpatent for more specific information as to the manner in which thedevice is operated with the master card.

Experience has shown where the cards of the Perkins patent are beingutilized for factory workers to write their clock numbers or otheridentification on their time cards during the day. When the cards arereceived in the oifice, it is necessary to slot them for employee'snumber he iore they can be sorted into sequence, as taught by Perkins inhis patent.

It is common knowledge that the writing of factory workers is oftenillegible. Also frequently employees make errors in writing their clocknumbers or spelling their names. This results in causing incorrectslotting of cards and errors in the preparation of the payroll.

The principal object of my invention is to.provide a master sorting andaddressing plate to be given to each employee, this addressing platehaving embossed thereon his name and number, and being slotted ornotched on an edge for the coding of his particular number.

Asmall addressing machine should be located at each work station in theplant so that the worker, upon starting on a given task, need onlyinsert his plate in the addressing machine together with one of the timecards made under the Perkins patent. Actuation of the addressing andslotting machine will, at a single operation, imprint his name andnumber on .the Perkins card and will also cut a pattern of notches inthe edge of the card corresponding to his number. It will be clear topersons familiar with this operation that, in this manner, errors willbe eliminated,

the work will all be done at one time, a great deal of time will besaved in preparing the payroll, or

in estimating the cost.

My means of accomplishing the foregoing object may be more readilyunderstood by having reference to the accompanying drawing which ishereunto annexed and is a part of this specification in which:

Fig. 1 illustrates a metal embossed addressing plate such as in commonuse for addressing or printing commercially, with the exception that itis provided with a pattern of notches corresponding to the accountnumber, and has a paper or card insert bearing an impression orimprinting from the embossing, so that the plate may be easilyidentified and-read;

Fig. 2 is a view ,of the reverse side of the same plate, showing theembossed and stamped numerals of the coding on the face of the metalplate; 7 Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the plate taken on line3-4 in Fig. 2; r Figs. 4 and 5 show the same type of addressing platewith the imprinted card or paper omitted; and

Fig. 6 shows a card such as is usually furnished to customers as creditcards for identification incident to charge accounts; the credit card inquestion however being provided with a pattern of notches to identifythe same with the account number.

Similar reference numerals refer to similar numerical indicia areapluralityof perforations 65 3 which may be located adjacent one or moreedges of the card, if desired. Eachone of these perforations 3 asdescribed in Perkins patent to which reference may be had for moredetailed description, are susceptible of being slot ed directly out tothe edge of the card, thus forming slots or notches 4 in a patternrelating to a single classification. 1

As shown, they are slotted for the workers number 453, the code beingnotched 4 for the 5 hundreds; 4 and 1 for the 5 in the tens; and

2 and 1 for the3 in the units, all of which is clearly set forth in thesaid second Perkins Patent No. 1,739,087. I

As shown in the drawing, the name of the worker and the department, aswell as the number of the account and the worker, are embossed as at 5in Fig. 3 on the metal plate, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, together withdata such as the.

name or other desired information. The card may also be provided withclips 6, I, 8, 9 and III, which can be conveniently stamped out of themetal plates for the purpose of holding the printed card as'shown inFig. 1.

It will be apparent from the foregoing description that by slotting thepattern of notches in the manner described in Perkins Patent No.1,544,172 that a mixed pack of master cards or plates can be sorted, andthus quickly obtain all of the cards for this particular account number.As shown in the drawing it is number 453.

It iscustomary when the workman finishes his work, he throws his timecard into a box and these boxes of mixed cards are taken into the ofiiceeach night and must beready for distribution on the following morning tothe workers. Now it is easy to perceive that if one has some thousandsof men employed in a factory, that thework of sorting these cards isvery great, and if the names are incorrect or illegible or the accountnumber is i1- legible, or, workers number is incorrect, confusion worseconfounded results. Whereas by providing the pattern of notches asdescribed in the Perkins. Patent No. 1,544,172, together with the dataembossed on the master sorting and addressing plate, not only is allpossibility of error and costing eliminated, but it is possible to sortthe time cards prepared by the use of this master plate with thegreatest speed obtainable.

A number of uses of this type of master sorting and addressing plateswill occur to persons familiar with the art, for example, as shown inFigs. 1 and 2, the plate can-be one from a large file representingcustomers of a particular company. At the time of addressing ledger 7accounts and customers record cards, the use of such a plate wouldautomatically slot the-ledger card 3 or customers record card madeaccording to Perkins patent for that particular account, to-

to that account.

the sorting of the cards into the ledger or other desired order by thestatistical or accounting department. Many other uses of this card willocour to accountants.

Having described my invention what I regard as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent is:

1. A master sorting and addressing plate provided with a plurality ofnumerical indicia adjacent one or more edges, embossed data embossed onthe surfaces of said plate and a pattern of slots in one edge relatingto a single classification whereby to control a punching machine inaccordance withthe pattern of the notches.

2. A master sorting and addressing plate provided with a plurality ofnumerical indicia adjacent one or more edges, embossed data embossed onthe surface of said plate and a pattern of slots in one edge relating toa single classification whereby to control a punching machine inaccordance with the pattern of notches, and means to hold a card on theface of said plate.

ROGER CONNOR.

